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To Market, To Market

Barely 15 months after first selling stock to the public and listing on the New York Stock Exchange, agribusiness multinational Bunge looks like a winner. After a weak spell in this year's first half, the company's shares have headed due north, and now trade around 23. Bunge has outperformed both the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and the S&P agricultural-products index, and has gained some 44% since its shares initially were priced at 16 apiece in August 2001.